Examples

After the invocational four-poem opening of 'Let's Just Say,' the book moves to 'Some of These Daze,' Bernstein's prose dispatches in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and on to the acerbic intimacies of 'World on Fire,' which critiques clichés like 'what are we fighting for?'

That happens even as the county attempts to tamp down evangelization in its letter to potential speakers, which states that the board "requests only that the prayer opportunity not be exploited in an effort to convert others to the particular faith of the invocational speaker, nor to disparage any belief or faith different than that of the invocational speaker."

Unlike invocational magic, which requires "calling on" or invoking demons and the like from the psychic sphere of existence, incantational magic, the magic of English literature's high fantasy for the most part, requires "singing along" or harmonizing with the Creative Word that creates the fabric of reality.

Philosopher's Stone to Sorcerer's Stone by Scholastic's Arthur Levine (he was convinced no American would buy a book with the word 'Philosopher' in the title), I assumed that the book was about invocational sorcery and creatures from the psychic realm